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New research illustrates the problem of app overload in the workplace. After reading the survey, called "The False Promise of the App Economy" employers may want to rethink how many apps they deploy or offer a way to better corral all that siloed information.

New research illustrates the problem of app overload in the workplace. After reading the survey, called "The False Promise of the App Economy" employers may want to rethink how many apps they deploy or offer a way to better corral all that siloed information.

App fatigue is hardly a new phenomenon. Between mobile devices, desktop computers and tablets, consumers are working with dozens of apps, toggling from one to another to access information and complete tasks. In the enterprise, this phenomenon is beginning to be a problem

Collage takes advantage of natural language processing and related artificial intelligence technologies to identify the topics and make the correlations. Within the Microsoft universe, Collage taps the Microsoft Graph logical model of connections between people, content, and concepts.

harmon.ie has announced Collage for Dynamics 365, a new application using its Collage AI technology that collects and analyzes data from enterprise applications including SharePoint, Zendesk, Office365, SharePoint, and Yammer to provide an optimized view of what's happening with customers and prospects.

Since its founding in 1863, Zurich-based Swiss Re has seen many changes to its business and the world at large. Today’s turbulent business environment, however, is forcing Swiss Re to change faster and more comprehensively than any other time in its history.

Workers in today’s commercial construction companies exchange an enormous amount of project-related emails and documents with a wide variety of fellow employees, contractors, suppliers and customers on a regular basis.

Enterprise organizations have invested heavily in IT infrastructure. Now they are working to augment existing systems with flexible cloud services subscriptions that promise to automate processes, solve complex challenges and facilitate new innovations to help them outpace competitors.

Things that matter: innovation, ingenuity, resourcefulness, usefulness, collaboration, community, expertise. Our annual list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management features organizations that manifest those traits themselves and that help their customers attain such qualities.

As today’s technology is changing, finding crucial information can be tough. When you consider the services that the cloud is offering/providing us, you’ll see that many services are overlaying each other. . . . Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you can process to make sensible decisions. The result is that you either delay making decisions, or you make the wrong decisions.

A breezy PR email on workplace productivity ruffled my feathers. But my snarky response led me to a much more substantive debate with Harmon.ie CEO Yaacov Cohen. He shared Harmon.ie’s latest machine learning/Outlook-based approach to easing worker distractions. Then we got into the problem of always-on workplace culture, notification noise, and what the modern worker is up against.

Looking to make Outlook the center of the digital workspace, Harmon.ie has launched a new tool which brings together commonly used business apps and services into one place that gathers information from disparate apps and cloud services using AI and machine learning to apply context to a given task.

In the age of increasing digital overload, business users find themselves constantly being distracted with too much information coming from multiple systems. An organization may use many different systems and cloud-based apps to store related information, such as Outlook for emails, Office 365 for document collaboration, Salesforce as a CRM tool, and ZenDesk for help desk tickets, for example.

Harmon.ie, a company that develops Outlook add-ins for Office 365 users has announced today Collage, a new add-in that brings together information from different cloud services, social tools, and more to make the email client much more useful.

harmon.ie has unveiled new capabilities of its information governance solution designed to give organizations an easy way to properly manage important e-mails and documents as business records in SharePoint without asking employees to complicate their daily routine.

harmon.ie has introduced what it calls “the first topic computing solution,” harmon.ie Collage, to unify disconnected information from multiple cloud services within Outlook, which is many employees’ primary work interface.

Digital workplace solutions provider harmon.ie today released its Outlook add-on, Collage, and made it available for free in the Microsoft Office Store. The Collage add-on makes it possible for people to get work done in a place many of us spend large parts of our day: our email inboxes.

harmon.ie has announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is now available for free on the Microsoft Office Store. Collage is described as topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable: email.

harmon.ie, a provider of user experience products for the workplace, has announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is available for free on the Microsoft Office Store. Showcased at Microsoft Ignite, Collage is a topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable—email.

harmon.ie, a leading provider of user experience products for the workplace, today announced that its topic-centric app, Collage, has been chosen as a top enterprise solution at the annual CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) awards. Collage was recognized as the second place winner out of five finalists in the Mobile Enterprise Innovation category during an awards ceremony at the CTIA Super Mobility 2016 event on September 8th in Las Vegas.

harmon.ie, a leading provider of user experience products for the workplace, today announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is now available for free on the rapidly growing Microsoft Office Store. Collage is the first topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable: email.

At Microsoft’s recent Worldwide Partner Conference, CEO Satya Nadella laid out his vision for a world in which A.I.-powered chatbots “fundamentally revolutionize how computing is experienced by everybody.” Bots, according to Nadella, will become the next interface, shaping our interactions with the applications and devices we rely on.

TMCnet, the online entity of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine’s parent company TMC and the TMCnet community, known as Mobility Tech Zone, are pleased to announce the winners of the Mobility Tech Zone Product of the Year Awards - among then, harmon.ie.

The philosophical war between artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligence augmentation (IA) has been waged for more than half a century, with the focus shifting between the two as each has made important strides.

As a daily continuous end user of the Microsoft Office Suite within Office 365 + SharePoint Online, I’ve experienced my fair share of third party tools– anything to make my day more efficient, right? One that has really stood out over the years is the SharePoint application, harmon.ie. I specifically use this app for storing, sharing, and even editing documents in Microsoft Outlook.

As SharePoint is becoming the main collaboration tool for more and more enterprises around the world, users need to have access to SharePoint anywhere, anytime for any device. While SharePoint 2016 with the new SharePoint mobile app offers a better mobile experience than before, user experience is still meet Enterprise requirements.

Buyers of business software are eager to get their hands on the latest releases of Microsoft products, but the rapid pace at which the cloud is introducing new technology into the workplace can often be disruptive.

Although the cloud still represents a fraction of Microsoft's overall revenue, the opportunities for its cloud partners continue to expand, according to the findings of a survey of 212 Microsoft partners conducted by Harmon.ie, a provider of tools for enhancing the end-user workflow experience. - See more at: http://www.channelinsider.com/cloud-computing/slideshows/what-partners-s...

On 17 May 2016, harmon.ie in collaboration with Gimmal issued a survey report entitled "The One Email You Can’t Ignore: The Risks and Business Impact of Failing to Treat Emails as Records" ("Report"). This Report provides insight into the key challenges that businesses face in managing email records. The findings are based on feedback from over one hundred information governance leaders from different industries.

Microsoft partners are witnessing Office 365 technology updates, refreshes and changes outpacing their customers' ability to keep up with them. This is according to a new study by customer experience specialist harmon.ie which surveyed more than 200 Microsoft partners worldwide. Thanks to the complexity and rate of change, partners are seeing new opportunities to step in and provide the much needed bridge to help companies keep up.

This week has been a fascinating one for tech anniversaries. Nine years ago to this day, the first iPhone was released – a story of its own, of course – but perhaps as importantly for enterprise working, this week marks five years since the release of Office 365.

Microsoft’s Office 365 became generally available for businesses five years ago today, and it has grown remarkably in the time since, becoming the most popular enterprise cloud service, a new report says.

Microsoft partners are seeing Office 365 technology updates, refreshes and changes outpacing their customers’ ability to keep up with them. That’s according to harmon.ie’s second-annual report on the transition to the cloud for Microsoft partners. “The Evolving Microsoft Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges for Microsoft Ecosystem Partners" is based on an April survey of more than 200 Microsoft partners globally.

Following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion one of Microsoft’s partners, harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services, believes Microsoft and its partners stand to benefit considerably from “LinkedIn’s treasure trove of information”. But there are some obstacles Microsoft will have to overcome, harmon.ie asserts, and one of those is possibility of LinkedIn users having trust issues with Microsoft owning more of their personal information.

There are many layers to Microsoft's vision for enterprise collaboration, including roles for SharePoint and Office 365. But email and the email applications in Office 365 arguable remain some of the most essential in spite of the overall evolution of the company's various collaboration platforms such as Yammer.

The initial shock of Microsoft's massive $26.2 billion bet on LinkedIn has mostly worn off, but it's still unclear just what Microsoft will do with LinkedIn, how the social network's loyal users will react to related change, and how Microsoft will integrate LinkedIn data with its products.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced its intent to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion (£18.4bn), the largest acquisition deal in the company’s history. Naturally, it did not go unnoticed in the tech press. The analysis from this publication focused on strengths, such as LinkedIn’s graphs and the various integrations with Office, Cortana and others that in theory sound exciting, as well as potential cautions.

OneDrive for Business is evolving as the common denominator for all things SharePoint and Office 365. But as that becomes a common repository for data, migrating files and protecting them can be cumbersome. Companies such as AvePoint, EMC, Harmon.ie and Metalogix, say they can make it easier.

Here’s a unique challenge for you: This post is a 5-minute read. Can you read this entire piece through once without getting distracted, checking your email, looking at your texts, or snooping at your social media?

Harvey Pitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, had a pithy observation about corporate compliance called the Pitt Rule of Discovery: “A document necessary for a company’s defense shall not be found when needed, unless the document actually makes the company’s situation worse—in which case, said document will be discovered at the least opportune time.”

Microsoft partners, harmon.ie and Gimmal have announced a strategic partnership to help business users with an easy way to capture, classify, store, find and retrieve important documents and emails in SharePoint, directly from Outlook.

From the Industrial Revolution to the rise of the high-tech sector, Massachusetts has always been at the cutting-edge of innovation, Gov. Charlie Baker told a crowd of business leaders Wednesday night.

The SharePoint and Office 365 community now have plenty to chew on now that Microsoft has articulated the future of its collaboration software and service. It's no surprise that Microsoft wants as much collaboration as possible to take place in the cloud via Office 365 and SharePoint Online but the company reassured the SharePoint Server community that this wasn't the last on-premises version.

Governments have always been big BlackBerry users and, according to leading technology analyst Rob Enderle, demand is getting even stronger thanks to a new third-party alliance and expanding interest in our secure Android phone, PRIV.

Get your engines ready. May 4 — the date every SharePoint fan has been eagerly awaiting — is just around the corner. And in a matter of days, the latest, greatest arguably overhyped general release of SharePoint 2016 will be a reality.

SharePoint add-ins from harmon.ie have been consolidated into a single, unified offering, updated to that streamline workplace collaboration and make SharePoint easier to use in the enterprise environment.

harmon.ie, provider of a suite of workplace user experience products, has announced a consolidated harmon.ie product offering. The new solution brings together harmon.ie’s products in a unified offering and includes additions to streamline workplace collaboration and make Microsoft SharePoint easier to use.

The DoD needed something that could provide the kind of BlackBerry-like security protections demanded by government, with full management control, and they needed a SharePoint-like product that people would actually use. They needed a partnership between BlackBerry and Microsoft, but these firms weren’t partnered. The solution: a partnership formed between B&D Consulting Inc., a huge government-focused consultant with tons of BlackBerry experience, and harmon.ie, one of the top-rated Microsoft partners focused on humanizing Microsoft Office.

Gov. Charlie Baker speaks to business leaders at MassEcon's annual corporate welcome reception. Since the beginning of 2015, 18 global companies, including harmon.ie, have put down roots in Massachusetts.

For companies using SharePoint and Microsoft collaboration tools, viewing multiple documents and forms on one screen is a game-changer. Harmon.ie provides just that—a way to view multiple windows and have the same capabilities in the field as in the office.

The harmon.ie enterprise collaboration hub helps empower construction personnel to edit, store, classify, retrieve and collaborate on large amounts of data, in both emails and documents, with a few simple clicks on the desktop or from mobile devices.

harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft in the enterprise sector – interviewed by us last week concerning Microsoft’s OneDrive fiasco – this week launched harmon.ie 2016. We talked to the company’s CEO, Yaacov Cohen, about the release and what it means for customers in the enterprise.

The new harmon.ie release offers access to the different elements in an enterprise Microsoft environment, including Office 365, Yammer and OneDrive for Business through an upgraded single screen across desktop and mobile devices. It also comes with the addition of Mac support.

To paraphrase a well known saying; Outlook is Outlook, and SharePoint is SharePoint – and never the twain shall meet. Yet a new solution announced by collaboration provider harmon.ie aims to change this traditional setting.

To paraphrase a well known saying; Outlook is Outlook, and SharePoint is SharePoint – and never the twain shall meet. Yet a new solution announced by collaboration provider harmon.ie aims to change this traditional setting.

SalesChoice is a predictive and prescriptive SaaS analytics company and has focused for the past three years on advanced artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and cognitive computing methods to help businesses cope with the declining rates of attention skills impacting productivity levels of sales professionals.

The cloud is a crucial part of Microsoft's future, and the success of Office 365 will be a crucial part of that. "Businesses moving to the cloud will find it extremely hard to migrate away from it, creating an exceptionally sticky business fueled by ongoing subscription revenues," said David Lavenda, VP of product strategy for harmon.ie. "And with Office Graph, which promises to deliver business intelligence from the cloud, Microsoft is likely to be the first to a new smart cloud offering, which will further drive growth."

According to a report from enterprise software vendor Harmon.ie, Microsoft Partners says their clients are willing to move existing Microsoft enterprise environments like Office, Exchange, and SharePoint to the cloud, but not without some trepidation. Indeed, the main reason many organizations make the switch is motivated by costs savings, and not necessarily a belief that cloud solutions are a superior alternative.

"Microsoft is at a crossroads. By doubling down on Office 365 and effectively shedding the mobile device market (Nokia), Microsoft has clearly indicated it’s a cloud-first world and the Ballmer device-first, Windows-first dynasty is behind us," said David Lavenda, VP of product strategy for harmon.ie, referring to the regime of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions.

Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions.

A report from enterprise mobile collaboration provider harmon.ie argues Microsoft is making progress in moving its customers’ productivity software to the mobile cloud, yet on premise remains important.

Accepting cloud technology seems to still be up in the air for Microsoft partners and their customers, according to results from a harmon.ie report released today, “Transitioning to the Mobile Cloud: Microsoft Office 365 Opportunities and Challenges for Microsoft Ecosystem Partners.”

Today's changing workforce with more mobile and remote workers has meant changes in how enterprises collaborate between employees, partners and customers. When mobile devices are used as a primary or secondary collaboration tool, then you might have to crack the mobile collaboration code for your enterprise to make sure collaboration happens securely.

Businesses are on the brink of an enterprise ‘app-ocalypse’ driven by the advance of cloud services companies and their workforce have added to their arsenal in order to cater to customers and deliver amazing (often times contextual) experiences. Driven by a desire to improve service and performance these businesses are unwittingly creating a chaotic — even crippling — user experience for their workforce. David Lavenda tells how freedom of choice — which allows businesses to select the most appropriate cloud service for the task at hand — has created problems for the enterprise that only app and services consolidation can solve. - See more at: http://www.mobilegroove.com/consolidate-to-avoid-enterprise-app-ocalypse...

Even as enterprise mobility and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) experience changes. I recently had a chance to speak with David Lavenda, technology strategist, Fast Company columnist, and vice president of product strategy for harmon.ie, a collaboration tools vendor.

Affiliate Partner Program From Harmon.ie Rewards Consulting Partners. As a provider of a service that make it simpler to collaborate across multiple cloud applications, harmon.ie is pioneering the adoption of new workflow processes within organizations that have adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Now the company wants extend its reach across the channel via an Affiliate Partner Program launched this week.

As a provider of a service that make it simpler to collaborate across multiple cloud applications, harmon.ie is pioneering the adoption of new workflow processes within organizations that have adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Now the company wants extend its reach across the channel via an Affiliate Partner Program launched this week.

Office Delve and Graph are works in progress: some things are done, but there's a lot more to do, Microsoft execs conceded at the Ignite conference in Chicago yesterday — even as they boasted of the speed of development.

Harmon.ie Rolls Out Affiliate Partner Program Harmon.ie, a provider of digital workplace products, launched an Affiliate Partner Program for Microsoft partners and VARs. Building on its growth in the SharePoint and Office 365 ecosystem, the expansion of the Harmon.ie channel partner program targets the growing market for cloud and mobile tools at small and midsize businesses, giving individual consultants and boutique consultancies access to the company's collaboration suite of connected apps for SMBs. The company plans to recruit more than 100 reseller partners in 2015.

Office Delve and Graph are works in progress: some things are done, but there's a lot more to do, Microsoft execs conceded at the Ignite conference in Chicago yesterday — even as they boasted of the speed of development.
Over the coming months we’ll see a lot of activity around connecting enterprise teams, the development of ‘Boards,’ the panes on which Graph information is displayed and the mobile experience, including the release of a Delve Windows Universal app.

Israel-based harmon.ie (pronounced “harmony”) announced yesterday at Microsoft Ignite its new channel partner program for the Office 365 community.

This product essentially brings a single pane of glass to access all Office 365 data stores from Microsoft Outlook or a mobile interface.

I’ll blog about my experience using its product another day, as it gives me simple access to SharePoint instead of the dreaded browser interface. Think of the Outlook snap-in as akin to running Microsoft Dynamics CRM from the CRM snap-in in Outlook and tagging/saving every e-mail, etc. More on the functionality later.

Adoption of Microsoft Office 365 continues to accelerate as companies embrace the cloud as a key pillar of today's digital workplace. harmon.ie, a proven enterprise collaboration leader, today announced its list of the top 25 Office 365 influencers. A natural extension of its past annual top 25 SharePoint influencers, this year's top list embodies the Microsoft ecosystem leaders' digital transformation to the cloud. Today's leaders go beyond on-premise SharePoint to play a critical role in helping businesses successfully embrace Office 365 as the cornerstone of their employee collaboration and productivity platform. The awards were announced at the 2015 Best of Breed Party on Tuesday night, hosted by Metalogix, and the full list of 2015 #O365Top25 winners will be available in harmon.ie booth #602 on Wednesday and Thursday.

harmon.ie, which puts all Microsoft collaboration tools on a single screen, plans to recruit more than 100 reseller partners this year to drive rapid growth in the SMB market.
The company on Wednesday launched its new Affiliate Partner Program, an expansion of its channel-partner program aimed at helping individual consultants and boutique consultancies “reap the benefits of the growing market for cloud and mobile tools" among SMBs.

Have you ever wondered if you rate as a mover or shaker in the Office 365 universe?" Well, now you have your answer, thanks to a just released list from Harmon.ie.
Harmon.ie, a company that creates software solutions to improve collaboration in the digital workplace, commissioned Scratch Marketing + Media to identify top Office 365 influencers.

Starting from a position that today’s mobile workforce does not need more tools, just better ones, Harmon.ie announced Collage, an app that brings data from multiple business application sources into a single view that can then be acted upon.

Email has a bad reputation for being the main cause of information overload; just look at the massive amounts of articles and studies devoted to the topic: According to a 2012 report from consulting firm McKinsey, reading and answering emails constitutes 28 per cent of an employee’s weekly work tasks. In a study of office workers in the U.K. a psychiatrist found that the average worker’s IQ fell by 10 points when they were distracted by email messages while working, the equivalent of missing an entire night of sleep.

Collage.
Key features: Collage provides workers with the first ‘go-to’ app for the Digital Workplace, now uniting business/collaboration apps, topical email and documents into a contextual single-screen experience on iPhones and iPads.

Despite years of discussions on enterprise mobility and BYOD, there are very few real business use cases that demonstrate real ROI. While we have much to accomplish in our quest for the mobile enterprise, many lessons have already been learned; lessons we can apply moving forward.

The typical mobile user of Microsoft's collaboration tools — Office 365, SharePoint, Yammer and OneDrive — isn’t a social media maven, according to a survey of user habits. But he can't live without document access.

Microsoft's Office 365 and Apple's iOS devices are becoming the main tools of the mobile workforce.

That is the conclusion of a survey [pdf] of 1,500 business users who downloaded the harmon.ie Mobile app, which brings Microsoft collaboration tools into a single screen on Android, iOS and BlackBerry devices.

The problem with mobile and social tools in the workplace is that they are all about distraction, says Yaacov Cohen, the co-founder of Harmon.ie, an Israeli-based company that is creating new social tools for the workplace.

Updated Microsoft is serious about making work seamless. Five months after it was originally announced, Microsoft is officially rebranding Lync as Skype for Business.

The reasoning is simple. “We want to bring together the well-loved, familiar experience of Skype with the enterprise security, compliance and control that businesses expect from Microsoft,” a Skype blog post explains. A technical preview is already available, and the service will be made generally available in April.

Creative Solutions in Healthcare found its workers are more productive and collaborative using social collaboration software than email. That led the company to evaluate options like harmon.ie's Collage, which brings together information spread out among different cloud services, like Office 365, Yammer and Salesforce, on a one-screen notification center for easier viewing.

With the recent unfurling of a Collage service, Harmon.ie makes it possible to integrate data from a variety of cloud services at the point where that data is consumed. David Lavenda, vice president of product strategy for Harmon.ie, said Collage is designed to make it simpler to unify workflow that now typically spans multiple disjoined cloud services. Rather than ask end users to keep track of where files are located, Lavenda said Collage provides a mechanism through which each individual users can customize their own workflow. Notifications then inform them when changes are made within that workflow, after which they can use Collage to fire up the native application required to access that data.

In a February 2014 industry brief, Forrester Research defined the Engagement Workplace: the next generation business user experience “that empowers employees using any device to take the next most likely action in their moments of need.” In a subsequent report, Forrester noted that in the Engagement Workplace, the
end user experience [will] help workers focus on their jobs by integrating multiple investments, including employee self-provisioned (cloud-based) applications, collaboration applications, and line-of business applications, which are all mobile-enabled and in the context of business results.”

Between cloud services, BYOD, and on-site software, workers use a large and often fragmented collection of apps and services to get things done during the course of a workday. Unfortunately, the "mishmash" approach means employees struggle to find what they need when they need it and sometimes resort to workarounds if they can't get satisfaction with IT-sanctioned products. Hopping back and forth between apps and tabs is maddening, inefficient and unproductive.

A simple explanation might be if you have multiple tools, such as Yammer, Chatter, and others from the long list of products, that are really working well in different use groups then making this a single shared environment should further boost the benefits. Collage makes it seem like a one screen environment, see for yourself by watching the concept video and the demonstration on YouTube. Assuming that Collage does what it says on the tin then you should have an easy way to bring the benefits of enterprise level integration to overcome shadow IT fragmentation. For many enterprises Collage could be a quick win to get both scale and integration of knowledge and experiences into enterprise wide ‘smart data’.

Harmon.ie today addressed one of the biggest issues in cloud computing: how to track everything that happens in the services you are using. It's solution, Collage, pulls together enterprise cloud services onto a single screen and lets users know what’s happening across the cloud ecosystem in which they operate.

Harmon.ie Inc. today became the latest player to address cloud sprawl with a new service that promises to consolidate off-premise data sources into a unified view of the user’s workflow. The launch extends the startup’s strategic focus beyond Microsoft’s and IBM’s collaboration portfolios to the more modern tools on the mobile worker’s belt.

We call it “the cloud,” but it’s actually many cloud services. To bring together business updates from several leading cloud services, Boston-based Harmon.ie is today launching a mobile dashboard called Collage.
It’s designed for the information worker “trying to see what’s going on and how I should prioritize my day,” CEO and cofounder Yaacov Cohen told VentureBeat.

... Earlier this week research from Synergy Group explained how Cisco is now ahead of Microsoft in the enterprise collaboration space, while other research from harmon.ie found that while Microsoft was the “undisputed” leader in separate collaboration programs, companies weren’t using the full suite in concert. ...

Although Microsoft has been developing Office 365 at a ferocious rate recently, it still remains a suite of individual applications designed to accomplish specific tasks. To enhance user navigation, harmon.ie has developed a single screen view of those applications and what’s happening in them.

Juggling apps on a mobile device can be a challenge, particularly when it involves the pressures of real-time collaboration. For organizations that use SharePoint and other Microsoft back-end systems, Harmon.ie Mobile offers a top-notch solution. For $19.99 plus $4 per month per mobile user, Harmon.ie Mobile puts Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Enterprise Mobility Suite into a single pane of glass. When a communication arrives, the app pops up within the user's current work context and facilitates a response or tasks, such as sharing or modifying an Office document, assigning a task, or responding to an email or text, all in as nondisruptive a way as possible. The back end of the solution is implemented as a SharePoint add-on. A free version offers read-only document access.

A new study, "The State of Mobile Enterprise Collaboration 2014: From Personal Productivity Toward The Connected Enterprise on the Go," finds barriers and opportunities that are driving mobile collaboration. It also highlights a chasm between IT and business departments. The two camps are not equally mindful of mobile policy, and while IT professionals know that personal mobile productivity tools are available, business professionals are less aware. This situation points to the need for IT to take on the role of strategic adviser, to enable more mobile collaboration and improve support of the business department. Harmon.ie commissioned Scratch Marketing + Media to conduct the online survey of 1,400 information technology and line-of-business professionals in 2014. Respondents came from a broad cross-section of industries and company sizes in the United States, as well as multinational businesses. All use enterprise collaboration tools on desktop and mobile devices. Respondents include C-level executives, as well as business and IT leaders and professionals who daily use or support mobile enterprise collaboration services.

While IT department leaders said they provide a vast range of mobile tools to business-side employees, a surprisingly large number of those employees are unaware that the tools are available, according to a recent survey from harmon.ie. The accompanying report, "The State of Mobile Enterprise Collaboration 2014," reveals that technology is making it possible to share and update files, manage projects and pursue a variety of strategic objectives with mobile devices. However, a lack of organizationwide awareness about mobile capabilities is hurting the overall state of enterprise collaboration. "Mobile workers are still struggling to access critical business information increasingly distributed across multiple cloud services and enterprise applications," harmon.ie co-founder and CEO Yaacov Cohen wrote in the report. "To realize the true value of a mobile enterprise, collaboration needs to move well beyond where we are today. In today's competitive market, just giving workers the ability to send email … or exchange instant messages is simply not enough." More than 1,400 business and IT leaders took part in the research.

“The problem isn’t the actual mechanics of the program, which are simple,” says David Lavenda of the Microsoft productivity app company Harmon.ie. “It’s the context – people won’t want to interact with colleagues using FB. Remember FB’s attempt to add email a few years ago — same idea.”

NIBC is an enterprising retail and commercial bank for entrepreneurs that takes pride in a forward-thinking, can-do attitude and "yes" mentality that allows it to be agile and flexible. The bank has offices in The Hague, Brussels, Frankfurt and London.

Forced to meet new regulations, Netherlands-based merchant bank NIBC needed to prove that it was compliant in the way it managed unstructured data. Doing so led to a project it's rolling out on a department-by-department basis, an effort that provides document and email compliance controls while also allowing employees to better access files from mobile devices.

Last week, harmon.ie released research results showing “The State of Mobile Enterprise Collaboration 2014: From Personal Productivity Toward the Connected Enterprise on the Go.” The report found that mobile enterprise collaboration is disproportionately focused on personal productivity and task efficiency, with plenty of room to improve how businesses turn mobile enterprise collaboration into a competitive advantage.

According to "The State of Mobile Enterprise Collaboration 2014: From Personal Productivity Toward the Connected Enterprise on the Go," report from harmon.ie, mobile workers are still struggling to access critical business information that is now spread across multiple services and applications.

Enterprise mobile collaboration leader harmon.ie today released "The State of Mobile Enterprise Collaboration 2014: From Personal Productivity Toward the Connected Enterprise on the Go," a comprehensive report based on a recent survey of 1,400+ business and IT leaders.

Mobile enterprise collaboration is still immature, focusing more on personal productivity and task efficiency than on larger enterprise needs, according to a survey of more than 1,400 business and IT leaders by enterprise mobile collaboration firm harmon.ie.

A report from harmon.ie has found that enterprise mobility is still predominantly focused on personal productivity as opposed to mobile enterprise collaboration, which is described as “not yet mature.”

I talk and write a lot about enterprise collaboration and collaboration tools. Workforces are becoming increasingly mobile, globalized and include members who work remotely. This requires an increasing focus on how teams of people (employees, partners, customers, advisors, contractors, etc.) can work closer together in virtualized workplaces. I asked Harmon.ie's VP of Product Strategy, David Lavenda, to share in this article some of his insights and strategies.

When asked to describe their own IT organizations in terms of collaboration maturity, 21 percent of IT respondents describe themselves as innovators.
Upwards of 90 percent of IT respondents empower employees with email access, 88 percent provide company calendar access and 82 percent enable employees to manage contact directories on their mobile devices, according to a survey of more than 1,400 business and IT leaders by harmon.ie.

Kevin Benedict talks about how workforces are becoming increasingly mobile, globalized and include members who work remotely. This requires an increasing focus on how teams of people (employees, partners, customers, advisors, contractors, etc.) can work closer together in virtualized workplaces. He asked Harmon.ie's VP of Product Strategy, David Lavenda, to share in this article some of his insights and strategies.

Microsoft SharePoint as a technology isn't bad. SharePoint is only as good as its implementation. Soon SharePoint might only be good as its mobile experience. The mobilization of Microsoft SharePoint is a topic I've been following since I began at TechRepublic and wanted to get back to it this year. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Yaacov Cohen, CEO of harmon.ie , a collaboration tools vendor to get a status check about how enterprise mobility, SharePoint, and Office 365 are currently working together.

With the largely untapped potential of mobile enterprise apps, smart developers need to move quickly to cash in on what may be a pending gold rush. This slide show, put together with eWEEK reporting and industry insight from Gartner, Forrester and enterprise collaboration player harmon.ie, provides insights on how the mobile enterprise user experience will evolve and how mobile enterprise app developers can capitalize on new opportunities.

David Lavenda, VP of Product Strategy, harmon.ie, explains that even though enterprises are still in the midst of a dramatic change, the mobile evolution will not be built in a day, or even in a year. The rise of the mobile enterprise demands a paradigm shift both inside and outside of organizations.

David Lavenda talks about how The Social Enterprise is dead … but it hasn’t disappeared. Rather, it has been replaced by a remarkably similar concept: the Digital Workplace. According to Gartner, the Digital Workplace "enables new and more effective ways of working, improves employee engagement and agility, and exploits consumer-oriented styles and technologies."

David Roe talks about the advantages of the new Office 365 Home Page. He highlights harmon.ie as a specialist in the areas of collaboration, customer engagement, enterprise content management and communications.

Lofty promises of a mobile electronic wallet have been around for a decade, only to crash down to earth as consumers continue to stick with the venerable plastic credit-card swipe. Will the newly unveiled Apple Pay be any different? There are signs Apple might be able to pull it off. If this happens, however, not everyone will be happy, particularly those in the enterprise world. "BYOD is dead as soon as Apple Pay takes off," says Yaacov Cohen, co-founder and CEO at Harmon.ie, a developer of enterprise mobile collaboration software. It's bad enough handing over your personal apps and data to your employer under a Bring Your Own Device policy, he says, but having to add personal purchasing history is a deal killer.

A marketing-led fist fight, but one with an interesting twist. harmon.ie is a vendor deeply tied to the Microsoft suite of tools. harmon.ie’s belief is that users are happy with the Microsoft MSFT -0.95% products, but want a degree of convergence in terms of user interfaces across the suite. harmon.ie offers a set of apps that bring all the different Microsoft collaboration tools into single-screen experience.

The Apple/IBM partnership news is still causing a stir in the press and amongst some analysts. Will Kelly tweets with Yaacov Cohen, harmon.ie co-founder and CEO, as well as some other industry experts to see really how possible it might be for Android to counter Apple and IBM in the enterprise.

Our partner Gimmal, a leading provider of SharePoint Information Governance and SAP Interoperability software, is excited to announce that its Information Governance Platform for Microsoft SharePoint remains the only native SharePoint solution certified against the very stringent Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.02 standard for records management.

There are problems with Yammer. But the problem lies not the product itself. According to David Lavenda, vice president of product strategy at harmon.ie, the real problem is that many people who have access to it just won’t use it — or any other social network for that matter.

CIOs have had little choice but to watch iPhones and iPads proliferate on their networks, even if securing and managing them is an IT headache. While the news of Apple and IBM joining forces in the mobile enterprise market grabbed headlines, CIO.com’s Tom Kaneshige writes the partnership fails to address BYOD concerns. Yaacov Cohen offers insights on what this will mean for MDM vendors.

Tom Kaneshige discusses how CIOs have had little choice but to watch iPhones and iPads proliferate on their networks, even if securing and managing them is a headache. harmon.ie's Yaacov Cohen explains what this means for MDM vendors.

harmon.ie's David Lavenda discusses why so many mobile enterprise companies made financial announcements within the last few weeks. In the mobile device management (MDM) space, Good Technology has filed an S1 to go public and MobileIron successfully executed an IPO. In the File Sync and Share (FSS) space, Dropbox announced a $500M line of credit after having raised $325M in funding only months earlier, and Box just announced another $100M investment.

harmon.ie Mobile for BlackBerry 10 aggregates popular Microsoft document-sharing and social applications into a single screen experience for the BlackBerry 10 platform. Business users can share documents and collaborate with colleagues using Office 365 or SharePoint on-premise, OneDrive for Business, Office Online and Yammer—all with a single app. The development of Harmon.ie's app for BlackBerry 10 presented unique requirements to create a BlackBerry 10-specific theme based on a generic Sencha Touch architecture.

Workers in the United States are putting themselves and their employers at risk by indiscriminately using nonsecure apps services on their mobile phones and tablets for work purposes. A prime example: Estimates based on a new uSamp (United Sampling) survey calculate the fallout from storing corporate documents on publicly available cloud services has already cost businesses $2 billion. The survey of 500 U.S. business and IT workers was commissioned by enterprise mobile app vendor harmon.ie to gauge the extent to which mobile workers are going rogue, by ignoring organizational policies for mobile device usage.

Accustomed to anytime/anywhere mobile connectivity in their personal lives, and fed up with the collaboration and filing sharing tools offered by their employers, many workers are taking matters into their own hands by using consumer apps to build personal clouds for work. "Rogue IT is wildly pervasive," said David Lavenda, Vice President of Product Strategy at harmon.ie, and a technology strategist in the collaboration and social business space. "It's a scourge on business because it's not secure."

We're revisiting our top five posts from May, in what has been an extremely vibrant and busy month for the Enterprise Mobility Exchange team, including the eighth consecutive year of our European event. Listed below is our month in review.

The role which mobile apps play in Enterprise Mobility, and the rapidly accelerating capabilities of related technologies, are enabling professionals to transcend conventional methods of accessing important information for their plethora of business purposes.

In this interview, we asked David Lavenda, VP Product Strategy for harmon.ie his opinion on the benefits of multi-purpose apps, which can extract information from multiple applications, web services and cloud services, to allow people to focus on their work from virtually any location, without having to toggle between different screens or interfaces.

Enterprises continue to struggle with security issues as IT departments fight what seems to be a losing battle as they struggle to protect data. harmon.ie commissioned the anonymous survey of 500 business IT users working in US and global companies. They found that IT professionals fear of a data meltdown due to compromised documents lost via unsecured ¬file sync services tops the list of concerns, with malware downloaded via third-party apps second; and viruses ranking third.

The next BriefingsDirect panel discussion explores one of the most broadly deployed collaboration platforms, Microsoft SharePoint, to determine how it's rapidly evolving from local network portal roots into the new cloud and mobile era.

We've just released version 5.0 of our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report. This latest release offers some practical answers to a nearly ubiquitous question: "How do I add useful social capabilities to SharePoint?" Specifically, we've updated the evaluations of SharePoint, Yammer, and Sitrion (formerly NewsGator), and added harmon.ie and Neudesic Pulse to the line-up. Here's a sneak peek, calling out a single aspect of each of these vendors.

Sharing files with colleagues and clients should be easy and convenient. What it shouldn't be is a security risk — but it frequently is. Because many small businesses don't have the right file-sharing systems and policies, many turn to unsafe practices that often put both their business's and clients' privacy in jeopardy.

It's hard to overstate the impact of Microsoft Office for iPad. The arrival of the dominant productivity suite on the dominant tablet promises to change how iPads are viewed in the enterprise. Office for iPad may also crush competitive apps, shut out cloud storage providers and limit MDM vendors.

BYOD has been a perennial buzzword and we finally saw broad adoption of it last year with Gartner going so far as to predict a shift in BYOD policy from personal decision to company mandate by 2017. In conjunction with that adoption came growing pains—straining archaic enterprise infrastructure, services and policies as companies struggled to accommodate the new demands and dangers of managing an increasingly mobile workforce.

The essence of both SharePoint and Yammer is to engender collaboration, teamwork and of course, sharing. It follows suit, then, that the passionate community behind these essential business tools has a lot to say when it comes to the direction of these products. More than ever, individuals with influence have a voice that can reach into and transform the echo chamber that stifles innovation.

The mobile world has done wonders for the 'anytime, anywhere productivity.' We can now work productively with the flexibility the modern employee needs to balance work and life. At least, that was the promise.

Click through for 10 tips to help you manage your mobile work/life balance, as identified David Lavenda from harmon.ie

How often are you away from the office and need to get document feedback or an approval done immediately?

Now you can have full-featured access to Office 365 and SharePoint – in the office and on the go. The first to bring you apps that deliver a consistent SharePoint user experience across Mobile and Desktop, harmon.ie now provides secure connectivity and offline document access with harmon.ie Connect for SECTOR.

David Lavenda, VP of Product Strategy, harmon.ie explores how the rise of the cloud and BYOD have changed the enterprise paradigm completely, and how IT departments that aren't keeping up with new user demands are in danger of losing control.

Enterprise mobile collaboration provider harmon.ie has expanded its Microsoft line of enterprise-ready mobile collaboration solutions. In particular, the company now supports with Windows Phone (News - Alert) platform with a new solutions that extends collaboration across Microsoft’s entire line of document and social tools on any platform.

For IT and from a risk perspective, there are manageability and security issues with mobile devices, such as corporate application support (another platform to write code for), authentication, securing the device and its data from theft, and providing support for employees through help desk services. harmon.ie has addressed these areas with usability, security and a data-less footprint.

The harmon.ie Office 365 and SharePoint Mobile Client app for iOS allows users to easily connect to their SharePoint environments from their iPhones and iPads. After reviewing the app, I would give it a 4.5 out of 5.

This interview explores how enterprises are using composite mobile apps that bring various cloud and mobile services together on a device.
Sramana Mitra: Yaacov, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Harmon.ie.

Will Kelly talks about how Mobile content management (MCM) is becoming more important as a platform for enterprises as mobility and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) provide the technology framework for today’s workforce.
He puts his analysis of MCM in front of Yaacov Cohen, CEO of harmon.ie, a collaboration tools provider focusing on Office 365.

Last month harmon.ie made me try their SharePoint mobile app and overall I found it pretty amazing. Not too long ago they came out with a new version that includes two new amazing features and asked me if I wanted to review them, so let’s see what’s new!

There is simply no way to unring the anytime, anyplace enterprise bell. Companies need to keep in mind the usual stuff like data leakage, governance; they also need to worry about employees' claims to mobile device rights. What makes David Lavenda say that? And what is Kranzberg's First Law?